Dubai offers a bustling city life with many places to visit, attractions to explore and festivals to attend. As a newcomer, it can be difficult to navigate the city alone.
In the digital age, apps can help you out! They can help Dubai residents get directions, order food, find parking, find rides and even invest in real estate.
Best Apps That Enhance the Lifestyle of Dubai’s Residents
Here are 10 free apps in Dubai to make life easier. They offer a user-friendly interface and are available for download on both Android and iOS devices.
1) Waze
With Waze, Dubai residents can easily know what’s ahead on the road with other drivers’ help using their live map. Drivers can locate accidents, traffic updates and alot more with Waze.
Features
- Real-time Directions: Get real-time directions, instant ETAs and traffic rerouting.
- Safety Alerts: Get safety alerts for accidents or natural disasters ahead.
- Police: Track where police are to avoid getting ticketed.
- Toll-Pricing: Check for average toll pricing.
- Petrol/Fuel Stations: Find the nearest petrol stations easily.
- Audio Apps: Can be used to listen to podcasts, news or music.
- Multi-Lane Guidance: Get free guidance for which lane to turn in.
Waze Download Links
2) Dubai Airport DXB
Millions of people travel daily from one place to the other. Amidst the chaos, it can become a nightmare to lose important flight information, forget flight numbers or forget currency conversions.
With the Dubai Airport DXB app, Dubai citizens can keep track of incoming and outgoing flights in Dubai. It also assists passengers with flight management and packing checklists and offers emergency numbers.
Services:
- World Clock: Passengers can set a world clock with selected cities.
- Arrival/Departure Boards: Real-time arrival and departure times.
- Emergency Numbers: Offers emergency numbers.
- Travel Offers: Find discounts and cheaper flights.
- Convert Currency: Helps convert the currency to Dirhams.
Download Links
3) Careem
Careem offers its users everything from rides to groceries to carrying out payments and more. It simplifies Dubai residents’ lives by allowing easy navigation, booking a ride, ordering services and picking out food.
Services:
- GO Anywhere: Users can book rides or schedule a pick-up for later with different car types.
- Careem Bikes
- Car Rentals
- Easy Offers
- EAT Everything: Food delivery on time.
- Careem DineOut
- Get Anything: Groceries can be delivered on time.
- Quik Groceries
- Zero delivery fee with Careem Plus
- Pay Anyone: Careem Pay offers an easy way to send payments.
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4) Talabat
In the age of smartphones, food delivery apps are on the rise. Not only do they make it easier to get food delivered but riders are efficient with delivery times. Talabat is a food-delivery app that offers its users grocery deliveries, discounts and a lot more.
Services
- Cash Payments: If online payments are not available, users can pay with cash.
- Pay Online: Dubai residents can add their credit/debit cards for online payments.
- Track Orders: Users can track orders in real-time.
Download Links
5) Dubai Calendar
Dubai residents need to be in the know about all national holidays, cultural events and major news occurring in the UAE. This is where Dubai Calendar takes the lead, as it offers streamlined content catering to every age group.
Services:
- Find Events Close by Locate events that are closer to Dubai or happening in the city.
- Event Details: Find official events and their location.
- Buy Tickets: Book tickets seamlessly.
- Explore Events: Access closeby events.
Download Links
6) InstaShop
Online shopping has made grocery deliveries, product searching and medicine deliveries easier for Dubai residents. InstaShop offers a wide array of services with fast delivery times and a vast product variety.
Services
- Fast Online Delivery: Orders can get delivered in as little as 30 minutes after placing one.
- Product Variety: 1,000,000 products available for browsing.
- Flower Delivery
- Home & Living
- Cosmetics
- JustLife: Offers instantly home-maintenance services in Dubai.
Download Links
7) RTA Dubai
A one-stop shop for everything transportation and road-related, RTA Dubai is perfect for educating Dubai residents on road safety.
Services:
- Easy Sign-Up: Use the UAE Pass to sign up.
- Mahboub: RTA’s chatbot can help solve user’s queries.
- RTA Location: Track all locations easily.
Download Links
8) Google Maps
Certified Google apps are not only safe for Dubai citizens, but they are end-to-end encrypted, prioritising the safety of users. Google Maps offers an easy way to navigate directions and find nearby locations.
Services
- Discover Everything: Find local restaurants, events and nearby activities.
- Offline Maps: Allows users to navigate without the need for an active internet connection.
Download Links
9) Dubai Metro
The Dubai Metro is the official way to travel from place to place and is used by residents nationwide. It offers offline connectivity, map updates and VIP services too.
Services
- No Internet Connection Required: Users can plan without a connection..
- Map Updates: Up-to-date changes for the map.
- Dubai Metro VIP: Offers VIP treatment.
Download Links
10) Google Drive
Keeping files on hand, accessing them, editing and sharing becomes easy with Google Drive. It allows users to share, view set notifications and securely manage files.
Services:
- Store/Access Files: Keeps users’ files safe.
- Upload Documents: Allows users to upload high-quality docs.
- Filter Files
- Receive Notifications: Users can get important notifications.
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FAQs
Dubai Metro’s Rent Map can showcase the total cost of renting a 1BR property closeby to a metro station.
There are a few must-have apps in Dubai that everyone should download.
– DHA
– Salik
– UAE Pass
– Dubai Now
– S’hail
